Journal of Management History: Volume 24 Issue 3

Successfully mobilizing for employee board representation: Lessons to be learned from post-war Germany

Pierre-Yves Gomez, Peter Wirtz

The equal representation of employees on codetermined supervisory boards is one of the distinctive features of the German corporate governance system. This study aims to examine…

Hallie Flanagan and the federal theater project: a critical undoing of management history

Kristin S. Williams, Albert J. Mills

This paper aims to accomplish two things: to build on current research which interrogates the role of management history in the neglect of women leaders and labor programs and to…

Frontiers of efficiency wages: unconventional wisdom?

Rosetta A. Morris Morant, David C. Jacobs

The purpose of this paper is to trace the historical foundation of the efficiency wage theory and examine its conceptual framework against other wage theories, in relation to…

Competing logics: financialisation and a Dutch cooperative bank

Frank Jan De Graaf

The purpose of this paper is to examine the history of the Dutch cooperative Rabobank to understand how the structure of an organisation determines how individual employees…

From small and generalized to big or specialized: A historical analysis of sports retail forms in Sweden

Johan Kask, Frans Prenkert

Retail has evolved over the past century alongside megatrends such as urbanization, consumerism and digitalization. To contribute to existing knowledge on patterns of retail form…